Waking late from our festivities in Copacabana, we had a leisurely breakfast and boarded a bus to La Paz in the afternoon.  It was the first time in a while I was able to stay awake and enjoy the scenery from a bus.  La Paz is a huge, sprawling metropolis nestled in...

I knew I had to get to the Bolivian border before 3PM in order to get myself a visa (Bolivia has a reciprocal visa cost of $135 for US citizens... bummer for me) so that meant a very early morning (incredibly uncomfortable, miserable, dangerously cold) bus ride out of...

Heading south from Cuzco, our little group (not so little maybe, as I´m now travelling with 5 other people) headed to Arequipa.  We arrived in the early morning, dropped our stuff off at Los Andes hostel and walked around town for a bit.  Arequipa is a tourist...

Day 1 - Downhill Mountain Biking At around 6AM, we were picked up from our hostel and brought to a bus with a large group of other trekkers.  We drove for a while (I can't say how long, as I was in and out of conciousness - after a week of partying, waking up before...

On the 21st, after a long, uncomfortable overnight bus ride, we pulled into Cuzco and headed straight for Loki hostel. As we pulled up in the cab, we saw the few people we knew were staying there heading out for their 4-day trek up to Machu Picchu. We got to say some...